Question time in federal parliament

WHAT WE LEARNED * Accusing another MP - in this case Labor leader Bill Shorten - of taking "backhanders" is, apparently, not unparliamentary after Speaker Tony Smith ruled against an opposition point of order.

* An expanded Snowy-Hydro Scheme will be the largest of its kind in the South Hemisphere, cyber security minister Dan Tehan noted in a long-bow answer about national security and energy.

* Australia has the second-highest GDP per capita of any country in the G20, Treasurer Scott Morrison told MPs just days after returning from a meeting of the organisation's finance ministers in the German spa town of Baden-Baden.

* There will be no change to rules that provide age pensioners on the taper rate with a minimum rate per fortnight, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull assured parliament.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN There is a culture of deceit within the trade union movement - selling out the workers, a culture of trading away workers' rights in return for membership and in return for cash - and we will put a stop to it

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT Why won't the prime minister use his power to stop the pay of almost 700,000 workers from being cut?